Sentence examples for scandalous theme from inspiring English sources

Michel Braudeau, then the editor of La Nouvelle Revue Française, referred to Angot's writing on incest as "a scandalous theme perfect for getting column inches in the weeklies".

It's a scandalous idea for a scandalous time.

Unless they are scandalously scandalous.

What makes a scandal scandalous?

TALKING TV: Oh, that scandalous, Scandal .

It is a tragicomedy of manners whose main themes are the scandalous pitfalls of genius, the struggle of exiles with poverty and the quest for erotic intensity.

The engraving was underscored by a short poem by Erasmus Darwin, "Night-Mare": Darwin included these lines and expanded upon them in his long poem The Loves of the Plants (1789), for which Fuseli provided the frontispiece: Contemporary critics often found the work scandalous due to its sexual themes.

Are scandals really that scandalous?

SCANDAL-PRONE, or just prone and scandalous?

Such themes, coupled with the publication of Godwin's scandalous Memoirs of Wollstonecraft's life, made the novel unpopular at the time it was published.

Themes can range from traditional and campy to downright scandalous and offensive.